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E. J. STRONG.

SPRING BRAOE FOR VEHICLES. No. 317,040. Patented May 5, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orrrone EDWIN J. STRONG, OF BERESFORD, DAKOTA TERRITORY.

SPRlNG-BRACE FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,040, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed May 1, 1884.

' To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN J. STRONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beresford, in the county of Union, Dakota Territory, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring-Protectors, of which the following is a description.

The object of this invention is to relieve the springs of a carriage from the strain consequent to endwise motion, and too much upward motion of the carriage-body relative to the supportinggear.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and combination of a system of hinged braces to be attached to a carriage or other vehicle, as hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a longitudinal vertical section of a carriage-body, showing my braces in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the braces, and Fig. 3 is an end view of the same.

A represents the body of the carriage, provided with a longitudinal tiepiece, B, which may be secured directly to the carriage-bottom, as shown, or it may be secured below the frame to the carriage-body.

O and D are my braces, consisting of rods of round iron twisted together centrally to form an eye or hinge-joint, H, and secured at their ends from longitudinal motion, but permitted to swing transversely to the carriage in eyebolts I I. The bolts I are fixed to the body of the carriage, and the bolts I to the running'gear E, or that portion of the car- (No model.)

riage which supports the springs. By this means the carriagebody is prevented from rising higher than enough to straighten the braces into a vertical plane, thereby saving the springs from being pulled apart, and the carriage-body is braced against endwise movement relative to its supporting-gear, while it has free play vertically within limits safe to the springs.

The braces O O and D D may be four separate braces hinged centrally and at their ends, as before described, the points I being at fixed distances apart longitudinally, preventing the braces yielding endwise, because each pair of upward braces forms with the carriage-bottom afixed triangle, and each pair of lower braces forms with the running-gear supporting it a fixed triangle.

What I claim as myinvention, and secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a pair of hinge-eyes fixed relative to'each other longitudinally to the body of a vehicle supported on springs, and another pair of hinge-eyes fixed relative to each other longitudinally upon the gear which supports the springs of the said vehicle, of braces hinged together at a point centrally between the said hinge-eyes,and hinged at their ends to the said eyes, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

EDWIN J. STRONG.

Witnesses! LUoIUs M. STRONG, PHILANDER STRONG.

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